Ed Finkel, Author at Youth Today

Building Bridges to Meet Kids’ Needs

The Bridge Teen Center offers after-school and summertime programs aimed at providing recreation and homework help for seventh- through 12th-graders. But many...

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Mentoring Program Wraps from Home to School and Back

The decade-old Incentive Mentoring Program (now known as Thread) in Baltimore currently serves 150 students, ages 14 to 25, with 800 volunteers,...

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Latino Program in Oakland Focuses on Cultural Activities

The two and a half-year-old Latino Men and Boys Program, run by the Oakland, Calif.-based Unity Council, expanded this past fall to...

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Where the Boys Are

New York club gears staff, programming, approach to needs of boys and young men “We’re very proud to have been part of...

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CHRIS Kids Aims to Ease the Hold of Trauma

In serving more than 20,000 adults, adolescents and children since 1981, CHRIS Kids has always understood the importance of dealing with trauma,...

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Getting at the Roots of Trauma

When violence and mental illness stem from adverse childhood experiences. Eddie Bocanegra grew up in Chicago’s mostly Mexican-American Pilsen neighborhood in...

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Agencies: Diversity Essential to Maximizing Outreach Potential

When the National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) held its annual meeting three or four years ago, a representative of one of its...

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‘I’m Only as Good as my Staff:’ Camp Directors Say Training is Key

Approximately 12 million children and teens attend summer camp every year, but whether camps serve any larger purpose beyond filling long, hot...

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After the Tide Recedes

Agencies hit by Hurricane Sandy and other disasters recount road to rebuilding Located virtually harbor-side in southwest Brooklyn, the Red Hook Community...

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To Text or Not to Text?

Youth-serving agencies have faced another electronic opportunity/challenge in the past half-decade that’s grown up right alongside social media: the burgeoning prevalence of...

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How Should Kids, Youth Workers Interact Virtually?

The key is keeping the same boundaries as in the physical world, agencies say, but that gets trickier online. Although youth workers...

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… Run Home Visitation Programs

Based on growing evidence that both intellectual and emotional development begin at, if not before, birth, voluntary home visitation programs for pregnant...

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… Train Kin to be Foster Parents

Generic foster parent training programs can make grandparents, aunts, uncles and others who take in children of their relatives feel like...

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Fatherhood Programs Mature

Note: This version corrects an error from the printed issue pertaining to the Dads Make a Difference program. In New York, helping...

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Bring After-School Networks To Scale

80,000 smiles: That’s how many youth were served last year by the city’s Out of School Time network. Photo: Harlem RBI The...

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Paperwork that Pays

For people writing grant proposals on behalf of youth-serving nonprofits, few applications can look as daunting as those for the federal Community...

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Anti-Drug Programs Get Off Drugs

Dando Furenza a la Familia: Only one session focuses on substance abuse and its effect on the body. Every now and then...

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Campaign for Youth Justice

Washington, D.C.www.campaignforyouthjustice.org Objective: To end the practice of trying youth as adults. In a Nutshell: The campaign teams with national, state and...

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